Lara protects me. A Georgian Story
21 September 2018 - 20 January 2019
Press preview: Wednesday, 19 September 2018, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Exhibition opening: Thursday, 20 September 2018, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Tbilisi, they say, is the new Berlin. Late-night partying and scope to do one’s own thing are luring ever more people to Georgia’s capital. Located at the intersection of key trade routes for centuries, Tbilisi has always brought different peoples together – whether involuntarily, through occupation or conquest, or willingly and generously by offering refuge to those driven from elsewhere. The populations seldom merged; instead, the separate groups learned to create permeable boundaries, leading to an eclectic mix of cultures existing side by side.
In the exhibition Lara protects me, video works, photographs, drawings and design objects tell the stories of various convergences. An enigmatic message the show’s curator Mahret Kupka found on her journey through Georgia became the point of departure for a quest. Who is the mysterious Lara who wrote the message? What can contemporary creative artists tell us about her? Georgian artists, designers, curators and writers respond and invite us to explore their country.
Curator: Dr Mahret Kupka
With
Ana Chaduneli and Tamar Chaduneli, Danarti, Giorgi Geladze, Salome Jokhadze, Tamuna Karumidze, Irakli Kiziria and Zuka Babunashvili, David Meskhi, Dina Oganova, Patara Gallery, Situationist
'Lara protects me. A Georgian Story' is contribution to the Official Guest of Honour Program of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018. In collaboration with the Creative Gerogia and Georgian National Book Center, on occasion of Georgia’s appearance as the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2018, with the generous support of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia.
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